Download or read book Weddings and Wedlock written by Moheb Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work defines the framework to defining the characteristics of a wedding celebration fit for the presence of our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ. The method used to reach this aim is three-fold. Part one of the book is a systematic patristic theology of joy and how the early Christians around the time of Christ understood happiness. A critical exercise to identify what wedding customs extend genuine Godly joy to those involved. Part two delves into how the early church has defined marriage (wedlock). As part of the effort towards an understanding of matrimony, the Coptic (or Alexandrian) church rites, both contemporary and historical are closely considered, particularly in light of the Eucharist. Ancient Coptic rites on the Crowning Service are translated into English for the first time as part of this effort. The historic relationship between the Eucharist and the Crowning Ceremony in various traditions is also closely considered. Upon successfully defining how the church understands marriage, then a fruitful discussion about the appropriate means of celebrating it can be undertaken in part three. In part three, the Wedding of Cana is detailed from a historic perspective. Of particular interest is the setting, environment, and customs that our Lord was directly exposed to and willingly interfaced with. Then we revisit the church fathers to see what insights they offer for each of the customs identified in the wedding of Cana. This ultimately allows us to define the practices and customs of contemporary wedding celebrations which are befitting our Lord's presence.
Download or read book One Perfect Day written by Rebecca Mead and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-07-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Astutely observed and deftly witty, One Perfect Day masterfully mixes investigative journalism and social commentary to explore the workings of the wedding industry-an industry that claims to be worth $160 billion to the U.S. economy and which has every interest in ensuring that the American wedding becomes ever more lavish and complex. Taking us inside the workings of the wedding industry-including the swelling ranks of professional event planners, department stores with their online registries, the retailers and manufacturers of bridal gowns, and the Walt Disney Company and its Fairy Tale Weddings program-New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead skillfully holds the mirror up to the bride's deepest hopes and fears about her wedding day, revealing that for better or worse, the way we marry is who we are.
Download or read book Practically Useless Information on Weddings written by Norman Kolpas and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2005-04-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate gift book for the bride, her mother, bridesmaids, friends, and the occasional groom. Fascinating facts include the world's longest wedding ceremony, shortest ceremony, and most-watched ceremony (on television). Also included is vital information on diamond engagement rings, gift guidelines for each anniversary, the significance of rice, the meaning of flowers used in bouquets, and the story behind traditions and sayings like "something old, something new." The book will be equally popular as a gift and curiosity for the nearly wed or as a resource for those hard-to-find facts that provide the background on much of the traditional wedding lore. A complete index provides access by topic.
Download or read book Getting Ready for the Wedding written by Les Parrott and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 1997-12-23 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will pinpoint specific concerns of engaged couples and provide accessible answers to their concern in the form of ten essays by various authors.
Download or read book From This Day Forward Rethinking the Christian Wedding written by Kimberly Bracken Long and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weddings have become a billion-dollar industry, with the average cost of a wedding estimated at $30,000. Taking into account dramatic shifts in attitudes toward marriage in recent years, many pastors are confused and frustrated about their role. This book offers a foundational understanding of marriage for today's North American church. Exploring current sociological analyses of marriage and the history of Christian marriage rites, Kimberly Bracken Long suggests that the church rethink its involvement in weddings and offers a distinctively Christian understanding of marriage. Today's church, Long contends, needs to reinterpret classic biblical metaphors and expand the range of scriptural sources that inform our understanding of marriage. Long also looks closely at each element of the wedding service and what makes a marriage liturgy faithful, inclusive, and sensitive to pastoral concerns. She provides practical suggestions for music and Scripture during wedding services as well as guidance on how to respond faithfully to those who are divorced or divorcing. Packed with constructive pastoral wisdom, From This Day ForwardRethinking the Christian Wedding delivers a practical theology of marriage that will be of help to clergy, seminarians, and others interested in this topic.
Download or read book Before the Wedding written by Alex A. Lluch and published by WS Publishing Group. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From best-selling wedding author, Alex A. Lluch, comes Before The Wedding. This book helps engaged couples address the most important questions that they need to ask to prepare themselves for married life. This book will help them commit to each other fully understanding all the implications of marriage. The questions promote communication and helps solidify their bond. Couples can relive their answers for years to come. More than 400 thought-provoking and inspiring questions will open the lines of communication between partners, build trust, and helps them prepare for marriage. These engaging topics include children, family, home, finances, religion and spirituality, morals and ethics, health, coping with conflict, career, sex, a couple's social life, travel, and more.
Download or read book A Christ Centered Wedding written by Catherine Parks and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for believers who want their wedding to portray the relationship of Christ with the church and to reflect the gospel to all in attendance.
Download or read book The Wedding Complex written by Elizabeth Freeman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-31 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Wedding Complex Elizabeth Freeman explores the significance of the wedding ceremony by asking what the wedding becomes when you separate it from the idea of marriage. Freeman finds that weddings—as performances, fantasies, and rituals of transformation—are sites for imagining and enacting forms of social intimacy other than monogamous heterosexuality. Looking at the history of Anglo-American weddings and their depictions in American literature and popular culture from the antebellum era to the present, she reveals the cluster of queer desires at the heart of the "wedding complex"—longings not for marriage necessarily but for public forms of attachment, ceremony, pageantry, and celebration. Freeman draws on queer theory and social history to focus on a range of texts where weddings do not necessarily lead to legal marriage but instead reflect yearnings for intimate arrangements other than long-term, state-sanctioned, domestic couplehood. Beginning with a look at the debates over gay marriage, she proceeds to consider literary works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, Vladimir Nabokov, and Edgar Allan Poe, along with such Hollywood films as Father of the Bride, The Graduate, and The Godfather. She also discusses less well-known texts such as Su Friedrich’s experimental film First Comes Love and the off-Broadway, interactive dinner play Tony ‘n’ Tina’s Wedding. Offering bold new ways to imagine attachment and belonging, and the public performance and recognition of social intimacy, The Wedding Complex is a major contribution to American studies, queer theory, and cultural studies.
Download or read book Marriage and Weddings written by John Slider and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work reviews significant Biblical texts and presents a traditional perspective on the meaning of Christian marriage and the celebrations of weddings in the church. The book provides a thought provoking examination and practical applications for premarital counseling and marriage enrichment.
Download or read book The Wedding Book written by Mindy Weiss and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive guide to planning a wedding, including contract negotiations, creating a budget, planning guest lists, and obtaining a marriage license.
Download or read book All About Weddings written by Ellen Bell and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2008-07-28 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the engagement to the honeymoon, the act of getting married is surrounded with tradition and superstition. In All About Weddings, the ultimate question-and-answer book on matrimony, light is shed on the mysteries behind the rituals and rites of marriage; the past, present, and future of the enduring ceremony are explored worldwide; and the meaning of everything from boutonniere and confetti to woo and wet bargain is explained. Along the way you’ll also discover: What is the origin of the word "wedding" Why does the bride throw her bouquet? What is a shivaree? Why are cakes served at weddings? Where did the expression "tie the knot" come from? Why does a bride have bridesmaids? How did the custom of a dowry originate? How did "stag parties" originate? What is the highest-grossing wedding movie of all time?
Download or read book Christian Weddings Second Edition written by Andy Langford and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication, Christian Weddings has become the necessary tool for engaged couples and pastors to plan unique and meaningful wedding services. It allows users to select the different elements from their wedding liturgy from a menu of choices in ceremonies from over twenty denominational traditions around the world. Christian Weddings serves many purposes. Pastors can offer new options in planning Christian weddings; couples of mixed religious denominations or traditions can celebrate a wedding day that meets their Christian needs; and couples who want a special service can successfully create a beautiful, personalized ceremony. This new edition includes additional ceremonies from an expanded range of sources, giving couples even greater freedom to plan a ceremony that fits their needs.
Download or read book Modern Brides Modern Grooms written by Mark O'Connell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for any couple—same or opposite sex—seeking a personalized wedding that dignifies the relationship and the individual self. No “new normal” here—this guide emboldens you to harness your unique, brazen, queer truth; to be creative; and to plan your wedding your way. Every fiancé faces the question, how do I become something new without losing myself? Using his own story, author Mark O’Connell reflects on conflicts that arrive during wedding transitions, as well as various other transitions throughout your lives. As a psychotherapist, O’Connell offers ideas to bridge relational gaps with your partner, family, and friends. As a professional actor, he also offers insight into the ways your wedding is a theatrical production and how this can help you to conceptualize the event, consolidate your efforts, and increase creative collaboration as a couple. This will serve you not only on your big day, but also for the rest of your time together. Whether we’re straight, gay, or other, weddings inspire us to carve out more fun, freedom, recognition, life space, love space, and connubial space than we’ve ever had before.
Download or read book I Do What written by Dennis R. Fulton and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dennis Fulton has served in local church ministries for sixty years. He served the Chapel Rock Christian Church in Indianapolis, Indiana, when the megachurch movement was in its infancy in Christian churches and Churches of Christ. After a two-year hiatus for renewal and restoration, Dennis was returned to local ministries. During all of his ministry, however, his interest in world missions found him preaching or teaching in twelve different nations, with an extended stay "down under." While in Australia, he completed the manuscript for this book. Over his lengthy ministry, there have been over five hundred couples who have stood before him to declare "I do." Among those have been his five children and, to this date, four of his grandchildren. It has been at the insistence or encouragement of them that this book has become a reality. They think it is important for others to know what it means when they say: FOR BETTER, FOR WORSE. Surely marriage will bring those things that are better. But just as surely, there will be those things that are worse. How much worse? Is it ever worse enough to throw in the towel? FOR RICHER, FOR POORER. Two family backgrounds are coming together in a marriage. One family grabs that dollar bill and squeezes George Washington to death on the way to the bank. The other may run to Dairy Queen and lick the life out of old George. What should be done in a marriage to merge these money matters? SICKNESS AND HEALTH. Some couples have found the stress of preparation for a wedding, the ceremony, the reception, and even the honeymoon leaving them exhausted and near sickness. There are, however, those big words like cancer, Alzheimers, and chronic diabetes that could be future tests of this part of the vow. What if? A good understanding of what is contained in that "I do" can help many couples toward the goal of a "they all lived happily ever after" marriage.
Download or read book The Complete Book of Christian Wedding Vows written by H. Norman Wright and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers help and inspiration to couples who desire creative and Christ-honoring wedding vows.
Download or read book Wedding Readings written by Eleanor C. Munro and published by Penguin Group USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes writings from Ecclesiastes, Rilke, Joyce, Sapho, Donne, the Hebrew wedding prayers, and other sources that provide thoughtful and meaningful texts for all types of weddings.
Download or read book A Priceless Wedding written by Sara Cotner and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2012-12-28 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plan a wedding that reflects your commitment—to each other and to the things you truly value. How you and your partner plan your wedding can set a precedent for how you will be as a family. How do you work together to merge two different sets of ideas into something bigger and better? How do you disagree in constructive rather than destructive ways? How do you honor the input and experience of family members while simultaneously maintaining ownership of your lives and choices? In this part-memoir, part how-to handbook, popular wedding blogger Sara Cotner shares how you can resist the pressure to create the wedding of someone else's dreams and instead reclaim the real purposes of a wedding: community, connection, commitment, and fun. A Priceless Wedding covers all the basics: securing a location, finding a dress, deciding on flowers, selecting a wedding party, planning the ceremony, choosing rings, and everything in between—but it goes beyond the elements of a "traditional" wedding to help you plan an eco-friendly, hand-crafted, budget-minded celebration that will be both memorable and meaningful. Featuring do-it-yourself projects that help you create your own unique wedding favors, sew a homemade wedding quilt, and more, this book will inspire you to begin your own traditions and rituals that will clarify your values and let you live them out loud.
